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We found this tea at TJ Maxx and grabbed a can. I like ginger, I like pineapple, and I think the two sound like they would be very good together. It would probably be much better to control what goes in the tea yourself.

This tea is legitimately horrible. It’s a nice dark tea, but the pleasantries end right there. There is no pineapple or ginger taste to it. At all. It’s bitter and tastes like nothing I can really explain. The scent isn’t any better. I hate to admit it, after choking down one cup, I just dumped my second when my roommate mistook it for chai.

I have almost a full tin left, and I need to think of who might want it so I can pawn it off on someone.

I’m reviewing but not rating this one, because I’m giving two different opinions.

My roommate saw this when we went grocery shopping yesterday and just had to try it. I was a little dubious, because I think I had it a few years ago and didn’t like it. My roommate loves it. She loves the bright color and flavor, loves how fruity it is, loves how sweet it is.

I can’t stand it. It tastes like microwaved fruit juice. Not even pomegranate. No, it tastes like APPLES. After “tea” the next ingredient is “apple juice.” If it’s pomegranate tea, the second ingredient after “tea” should be “pomegranate.” All the other fruit flavors are very prominent and overpowers the tea itself, and there’s nary a HINT of what the tea was named for.

If you want a pomegranate tea, skip this. For the love of all that is tasty, skip it. Try Yogi’s green tea with pomegranate instead.

I must say that I didn’t know what to expect when I first tried this. I don’t think I would have bought it if I had found it myself, but my roommate got it from a friend. I do like eggnog, so I figured I’d give it a try.

I don’t really like it. It does not taste like tea or eggnog. Instead, it taste to me like a boxed yellow cake mix. I doubt that I will ever finish the rest. I added sugar and soy milk, and it did almost nothing to improve the taste.

Well, this one was a disappointment for me. I quite like coconut, and chais are one of my favorite kinds of tea. I tried this, and it made me think of spiced coconut water. Not tea. I could barely get the taste of tea in it, and the coconut actually was powerful enough to hide most of the spices. I wasn’t impressed, and have not had a cup of this by itself since.

Instead, I steep it along with a bag or Twinings Ultra Spice to even it out and add a lot of soymilk. That’s the only thing that has saved this tea for me. The combo of the two is much more pleasant for me, and is the only reason I’m not pawning the rest of the tin off onto my roommate.

This is a very strong Irish breakfast, and very good because of it. It’s very rich and dark in color, and rather unique in flavor as far as IB teas go. As the description states, it is a very robust tea, and I quite enjoy it.

This is quite a delightful tea. It’s very light, almost airy, and very delicate for a black tea. It’s slightly on the sweet side, needing very little if any additional sweetening. I tried it with a little honey and soy milk, and have found it’s best that way, though good any way you make it. I only got it a couple days ago, but it has already found a place among my favorites.

I’m trying my first cup of this right now, and I must say that I’m not particularly impressed. On the other hand, I’m having it hot at the moment when I know I like my fruit tea cold. As it is, it smells wonderfully of peach, quite a delightful aroma, but I find it to be slightly sweet while still being somewhat bland. I’m now waiting for the cup to cool so I can try it the way I usually would have it.

This tea has sat in my roommate’s stash of tea for ages, the box unopened until I found it last month. This morning is only my second cup of it, with a little sugar. Twinings China Keemun is a nice dark tea, with a rich smooth flavor as stated on the box. It has a bit of a smoky scent and taste to it that lingers for a moment.All in all, rather enjoyable.

A lady I went to school with gave me this tea a few weeks ago. She tried it and hated it, but she said I could give it a try and see if I liked it any better. I didn’t.

As a hot tea, this was horrible. It made me wince and not touch the cup for the next four hours. By then, it was room temp, and almost bearable to drink. I decided that it would make a better iced tea than anything else. Chilled, it’s a little better, a little fruity but nothing I could really identify. I used the last of what was given to me to make a couple pitchers of cold tea, but I mixed it 2:3 with a strawberry tea, added one pomegranate for a bit more color, and sweetened liberally. It’s really the only way I can drink it without choking. By itself it was a pale pinkish color, I believe, and I wasn’t able to pinpoint what I was tasting when I first had it.

When I was at my parents’ house the other day, I gave this a try again. Not bad, but it’s not one that I’d get for my cupboard.

I’m not usually one for hot fruit tea, but this one is all right. It smells wonderfully spiced with a bit of orange, but the flavors are reversed with a little more orange than spice. It’s drinkable, but still not one that I would drink often.

I’m not quite sure about this one yet. I tried it earlier today, but I think I added too much water to it. So it was rather watered-down and bland, though it did smell wonderfully like gingerbread. It also has a distinct milkiness that I’m not sure I like, and I’m hoping the milk product in it is a small enough amount to not upset my stomach.

I’ll be giving it a second try tonight, though, in a smaller cup.

I honestly don’t remember what it tasted like to me, as I tried this some time last year. I just remember that I thought it was awful and that I swore I’d never drink another cup of it. It’s one of the only times I ever dumped a cup down the sink.

I guess my roommate has had this in bag form for ages. Now, I love chai, but I don’t like vanilla, but I figured I would try some last year. I’m not sure if it’s the tea itself, or if it was because it was older than dirt, but that’s what it tasted like. Glorified dirt soaked in hot water. It was earthy and very musty, so I’m leaving the rest of it for her, since she likes it. Once it’s gone, maybe I’ll get her another box and try some that’s fresh and adjust my rating accordingly.

Now this is a tea with with a bite to rival a hyena’s. The first time I made a cup, I let the bag sit for a couple minutes and it was overwhelmingly ginger, as if I’d just grabbed a ginger root soaked in lemon for a brief while and chomped into it. The next time, I dunked the bag until the color looked about right and the scent was just enough to take over everything else when I leaned over the cup. That cup was much more balanced and proved to be very good with some honey in it.

This is a very good tea for colds, sore throats, and digestive problems (and menstrual cramps, i hear) , if you can handle it’s strength. Personally, I find it strong to the point where I can only have it once in a while, and mostly when I’m ill.

My roommate has had this since before she moved in with me. And… I can’t say whether or not it makes much of a difference. She doesn’t like it, and I can’t say I can stand the smell of it for too long…

This is one of my current favorites. I find it nicely sweet, since it already has stevia leaf in the bag, so it needs very little (if any) additional sweetening. In comparison to some white tea with pomegranate that my roommate bought, it is very sweet. It’s a beautiful bright red color, and I love the sweet smell of it. It’s good hot or cold, which is odd of fruit teas for me.

I quite like this tea. I’m not a fan of licorice, but it follows the minty taste very nicely. It’s a soothing tea, with a mild spiciness, quite a nice aroma, and it’s very good for both cold days and digestive problems.

This is okay. If I can’t find another mint tea, I’ll drink it, but I’m not too fond of the mix of mint flavors.

This is probably one of the only teas by this company I wasn’t disappointed in. I haven’t tried many brands of Earl Grey, so I did enjoy this one and don’t really have any others to compare to.

I honestly didn’t know what to make of this when I tried it. I wouldn’t know how to describe it, but I just couldn’t place the flavor. Not quite vanilla, not quite caramel, but still sweet and somehow pleasant despite the fact it didn’t taste anything like what it should.

The scent of this tea was wonderful. Strong, spicy and orange. The taste was sub-par. It was weak, and the orange and spice flavors were lost. Not a fan of this one.

Not bad, I think. It’s not overly minty to me, and it’s decent when I’ve got an upset stomach and my usual tea isn’t available.

This is just a weak spiced black tea. Very weak. I didn’t approve.

I tried it hot, but I just didn’t like it. Later, I stuck a whole bunch in a pitcher of water and let it steep in the sun for a while, then sweetened and iced it. Cold, it was much better. This is definitely more of an iced tea than a hot tea.